Latest revision as of 10:25, 7 August 2011

Purpose: The Owasp Esapi Ruby is a port for outstanding release quality Owasp Esapi project to the Ruby programming language. The idea is to build a Ruby gem (the standard ruby library archive format) containing the Esapi concepts implemented in Ruby classes so people using Ruby in their Rails application can have security into them.

The OWASP Esapi Ruby gem will require at least version 1.9.2 of Ruby interpreter to make sure to have full advantages of the newer language APIs. In particular version 1.9.2 introduces radical changes in the following areas:

Regular expression engine (to be written)

UTF-8 support

Unicode support in 1.9.2 is much better and provides better support for character set encoding/decoding

“As of Ruby 1.9.2, the range of dates that can be represented is no longer limited by the under- lying operating system’s time representation (so there’s no year 2038 problem). As a result, the year passed to the methods gm, local, new, mktime, and utc must now include the century—a year of 90 now represents 90 and not 1990.“